Analyse & kritik

analyse & kritik (ak) (full German title: "analyse & kritik - Zeitung für linke Debatten", in English, analysis & critics - Newspaper for left debates) is a monthly newspaper in Germany. Published in Hamburg it is one of the best known left magazines in Germany. It is published by the Verein für politische Bildung, Analyse und Kritik e.V., with a circulation of 5400 as of December 2019. The newspaper was founded in 1971 by the initially Maoist orientated Communist League (German: Kommunistischer Bund, KB) in West Germany.

History
ak - analyse & kritikis the successor to Arbeiterkampf (AK) the newspaper of Kommunistischer Bund an initially maoist K-Group. The KB emerged from the protests of 1968. In the 1980s KB was the leading organisation of the "undogmatic left" (undogmatische Linke). The first edition of AK was published in December 1971. The newspaper remained when the KB disbanded in 1991. For a little longer than a year, until summer 1992, it was produced conjointly by both the majority and the minority fraction of the KB as an umbrella organization. From August 1992 (issue no. 345) the former majority of the KB was the sole publisher, and the newspaper received its current unaltered name: ak - analyse & kritik. In 1999, the Verein für politische Bildung, Analyse und Kritik e.V. became publisher and the newspaper focus since then has been left, but in a broader sense.

Content
On the occasion of its 40-year-long existence, the newspaper was restructured in December 2011. Since then it consists of four "books": Politik, Thema, Bewegung, Gesellschaft. Thematical sections are Aktion, Deutschland, Diskussion, Gender, Geschichte, International, Kultur, Rechte, Wirtschaft & Soziales. ak publishes articles from a Marxist, feminist, radical-leftist, or reformist perspective. It covers social movements and poses them critical questions. Antifascist and anti-racist topics are discussed frequently. Every issue contains a leading article of three to five pages. The main topics of 2018 were Imperiale Lebensweise, Black History Month, 1968, China, Sexarbeit, Fußball-WM, Lagersystem, Solidarität, Klima, Novemberrevolution, Über den Wolken. Additionally, there are series of articles, the last of which was published in 2018 as a book.